General Notes

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4  TEXT Date of Import: Apr 17, 2001
[Fortescue.ged]
HISTBARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE, IN THE LIFETIME OF HIS FATHER, RECEIVED A C
OMMAN D TO ATTEND THE KING AT PORTSMOUTH, AND TO ACCOMPANY THE KING TO GAS
CONY.  THIS BEGAN HIS MILITARY CAREER.  HE WAS IN SCOTLAND AT THE TI
ME OF HIS FATHER'S DEA TH AND HISSUCCESSION TO THE BARONY.  HE WAS TH
EN IN THE SERVICE OF ROBERT DE CL IFFORD IN THE WELSH WARS AND IN THE FIR
ST YEAR OF EDWARD I WAS APPOINTED AS GOV ERNOR OF BRISTOL.  IN THE NEXT T
WO YEARS HE WAS SUMMONED TO PARLIAMENT AS BARON OF BADLESMERE. IN THE FIF
TH YEAR OF EDWARD II (1312), HE WAS CONFIRMED AS THE GOVERNOR OF LEDES A
ND ACQUIRED VAST LANDS AND HELD THE OFFICE OF STEWARD FOR MA NY YEARS.  B
UT HIS ALLEGIANCE WAS NOT TRUSTWORTHY, FOR IN JOINING WITH THOMAS T HE EA
RL OF GLOUCESTERAND OTHER DISCONTENTED NOBLES, HE WENT OT KENT WITHOUT T
HE KING'S PERMISSION, AND BEING WELL RECEIVED AT LEDES TOOK COMMAND OF A P
LATOON OF KNIGHTS AND THEN PROCEEDED TO CANTERBURY WHERE THEY SET UP CA
MP AT THE SHRIN E OF ST THOMAS.  WHILE LORDBADLESMERE REMAINED THERE, JO
HN DE CRUMWELL AND HIS WIFE SOUGHT HIS AID, AND HE WENT OT OXFORD, WHERE T
HE LORD OF HIS PARTY WERE AS SEMBLED.  IN THE MEANTIME, THE KING HEARING A
BOUT THE BARONS ACTIONS, SENT THE QUEEN TO LEDES WHERE SHE WASDENIED ADMIS
SION.  BARTHOLOMEW'S FAMILY WAS THEN TA KEN BY FORCE TO THE TOWER OF LONDO
N.
HISTTHE BARONS WERE DEFETED AT THE BATTLE OF BOUROUGHBRIDGE AND TAKEN PRIS
ONER.  BARTHOLOMEW WAS HANGED, DRAWN AND QUART ERED AT CANTERBURY, HIS HE
AD WAS SET UPON A POLE AT BURGATE.  ABOUT 90 OTHER NO BLES WERE DEALT WI
TH IN THE SAME MANNER.